[tdwg-content] Idea for Discussion, Differentiating between "type's" of identifiers

[Rutger Vos]

> As an example I am of the growing opinion that taxonomic classifications
> would be rendered perfectly adequately in SKOS - each classification being a
> free standing thesaurus linked to other thesauri/classifications using the
> standard SKOS terms.

This is how TreeBASE shows links between OTU labels submitted to it
and their matches to uBio NameBank records and NCBI taxonomy records,
using the skos:closeMatch predicate (this was deemed appropriate also
because the TreeBASE webapp determines these links mostly just by
string matching).

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